THE 

 EVERLASTING PEA. 



Lathy rus latifolius. 



;OXE of the old-fashioned flowers, 

 as it is the new fashion to call 

 them, can fairly stand before the 

 half-dozen sorts of everlasting 

 peas that may be met with in 

 gardens where fashion is unknown 

 and beauty is pre-eminent. When 

 they have held their ground a 

 few years, and have made great 

 bosses of rampant growth, crowned 

 and crowded with flowers, they are 

 altogether glorious. They are a 

 little too riotous in temper, too 

 exuberant in spreading themselves 

 about, for the very trim garden 

 where straight lines prevail and 

 the knife and shears are kept con- 

 stantly at work ; and yet it must need a curious frame of 

 mind in any one who, having seen a clump of everlasting 

 peas in flower, should after that desire to limit their 

 growth or put them out of the garden altogether. 



The rambling botanist who cares not for garden flowers 

 will scarcely turn aside from these, for they will remind 

 him of some of the glorious wildings of the pea tribe he 



